Bilingual Education/Secondary Major, Bachelor of Arts in Education (BAE)
The Bilingual Education Program offers a major for students preparing to teach dual language learners who wish to demonstrate their own commitment to learning an additional language. This major requires the completion of a minor or certificate approved by a Modern Languages advisor. Note: Students who want a second endorsement in a minor field will require more than 12 quarters to complete the BAE.
This major satisfies the endorsement for preschool through grade 12.
World Language Requirement
Acceptance to the program is contingent upon scoring Advanced-Low or higher on both the oral and written ACTFL tests. As the State of Washington, Professional Educator Board (PESB) requires bilingual education candidates to pass the ACTFL oral and written tests with a score of Advanced-Mid or higher in order to get the certification, candidates who score Advanced-Low on any of the ACTFL tests will be asked to prepare a plan to pass the ACTFL oral and written tests at the end of the certification at the Advanced-Mid level. This plan will require them to take some upper-division world language courses.
Grade Requirements: the minimum cumulative GPA for this program is ≥2.7.
Secondary Education students must complete the required Secondary Education Core and the following courses.
| Required English Course | ||
| ENGL 360 | LANGUAGE STRUCTURE AND USE | 5 |
| Required English as a Second Language Courses | ||
| ESLG 471 | TEACHING ENGLISH ACROSS THE DISCIPLINES | 3 |
| ESLG 480 | SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION | 4 |
| ESLG 481 | METHODS AND MATERIALS IN ENGLISH AS A SECOND OR FOREIGN LANGUAGE | 4 |
| ESLG 488 | SECOND LANGUAGE PRINT LITERACY THEORIES | 3 |
| ESLG 489 | CULTURAL AND LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY IN THE CLASSROOM | 4 |
| ESLG 492 | SECOND LANGUAGE LITERACY PLACEMENT AND ASSESSMENT | 3 |
| Required General Modern Languages Courses | ||
| GNML 391 | PRINCIPLES OF BILINGUAL EDUCATION | 5 |
| GNML 392 | PRACTICES AND ASSESSMENT FOR BILINGUAL EDUCATION | 5 |
| GNML 393 | PRACTICUM: BILINGUAL EDUCATION (variable credit course; must be repeated ) | 6 |
| Required Capstone | ||
| SPAN 491 | SPANISH SENIOR THESIS | 4 |
| or ESLG 490 | ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE CAPSTONE | |
| Total Credits | 46 | |
| Secondary Education Core | ||
| EDUC 303 & EDUC 309 & EDUC 341 & EDUC 386A & EDUC 413 | FOUNDATIONS OF ASSESSMENT and FOUNDATIONS OF SECONDARY CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT and SECONDARY STRATEGIES, MANAGEMENT, ASSESSMENT and FIELD EXPERIENCE AND PRACTICUM and CONTENT AREA LITERACY: MANAGEMENT AND ASSESSMENT FOR SECONDARY EDUCATION CANDIDATES | 15 |
| EDUC 386B & EDUC 427 | FIELD EXPERIENCE AND PRACTICUM and GENERAL STUDENT TEACHING K-12 (These are variable credit courses. The minimum for each is 3 credits.) | 6-15 |
| EDUC 426 | SECONDARY STUDENT TEACHING 5-12 | 12 |
| Total Credits | 33-42 | |
University Competencies and Proficiencies
English
Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning
Placement and Clearance
Prior Learning/Sources of Credit AP, CLEP, IB
General Education Requirements (GER)
- Minimum Credits—180 cumulative credit hours
- 60 upper-division credits (300 level or above)
- 45 credits in residence (attendance) at Eastern, with at least 15 upper-division credits in major in residence at Eastern
- Minimum Cumulative GPA ≥2.0
Breadth Area Core Requirements (BACR)
Humanities and Arts
Natural Sciences
Social Sciences
University Graduation Requirements (UGR)
Diversity Course List
World Language (for Bachelor of Arts)
Global Studies Course List
Minor or Certificate
Senior Capstone Course List
Application for Graduation (use EagleNET) must be made at least two terms in advance of the term you expect to graduate (undergraduate and post-baccalaureate).
Use the Catalog Archives to determine two important catalog years.
Requirements in Degree Works are based on these two catalog years:
- The catalog in effect at the student's first term of current matriculation is used to determine BACR (Breadth Area Credit Requirements) and UGR (Undergraduate Graduation Requirements).
- The catalog in effect at the time the student declares a major or minor is used to determine the program requirements.
Students who earn a BAE in Bilingual Education at EWU should be able to:
- create developmentally-appropriate bilingual lesson plans grounded in language acquisition research;
- deliver an oral presentation designed to inform families of the benefits of a K-8 bilingual dual-language program;
- explain how pedagogical strategies support elementary and middle school students’ literacy;
- identify the effects of the interrelationship between language and culture on the bilingual classroom;
- identify the optimal elements in a WA standards-based lesson plan for bilingual Education;
- teach a lesson that supports the linguistic development of bilingual speakers.